EXIT STRATEGY

Author: Kelley Armstrong ISBN: 0553588192 7/2007 SUSPENSE Publisher: BANTAM DELL

Regulars at Nadia’s nature lodge don’t ask what she does in the off-season. And that’s a good thing. If she told them, she’d have to kill them. She’s a hit woman for a Mafia family. Tough and self-sufficient, Nadia doesn’t owe anyone any explanations. But that doesn’t mean she always works alone. One of her contacts has recruited her in the hunt for a ruthlessly efficient serial killer cutting a swath of terror across the country. The assassin is far too skilled to be an amateur—and the precision of the killings is bringing the Feds much too close to the hit man community for comfort. To put an end to the murders, Nadia will have to turn herself from predator to prey as she employs every trick she knows to find the killer. Before the killer finds her…

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

Pardon the phrase, but... What a hell of a book! This book has everything—action, suspense, love, sex, intrigue—you name it, and it's available.

This is the story of a former cop turned hit woman. Nadia normally takes solo missions, but this time the situation is a bit different. There is more on the line and the FEDS are closing in. Nadia becomes the prey in this story instead of the predator, and she will have to use everything she knows to pull her out of this situation alive.

What an awesome read! I'd read it again if I thought I could get away with it. This is a new direction for Armstrong, author of the Otherworld series, and a welcome change. I always enjoy her books, but EXIT STRATEGY takes the cake. This is a fast-paced story that will keep the reader glued to wherever they happen to be sitting, but believe me, it is worth the ride. With EXIT STRATEGY Armstrong shows why she is such a fabulous author and why she has such a strong following of readers.

Kym Oetting